AR pre-532 - another sign; AR 540 - jewels

And another sign appeared in heaven:

--- A revelation from the Lord

concerning people antagonistic to the New Church

and its doctrine.

behold, a great, fiery red dragon

--- People in the Protestant Reformed Church

who make God three entities and the Lord two,

and who divorce charity from faith,

making faith saving

and not at the same time charity.

having seven heads--- Irrationality owing to their falsifying and profaning

the Word's truths.

and ten horns

--- Much power.

and seven jewels on its heads.

--- All the Word's truths falsified and profaned.

Its tail drew a third of the stars of heaven

and threw them to the earth.

--- By falsifying the Word's truths

they exiled all spiritual concepts

of goodness and truth from the church,

and by appeals to falsity

completely destroyed them.

(Revelation 12:3-4)

AR 540 [2]

Truths in the literal meaning of the Word

are symbolized by jewels or precious stones

because everything in the Word's literal meaning is,

in the eyes of angels, translucent

in consequence of the Word's spiritual meaning,

thus in consequence of the light of heaven

in which the Word's spiritual truths reside.

For a stone in the Word symbolizes

truth in its outmost expressions,

and thus a precious stone,

that truth translucent.